The Osceola times., 1887-04-09
A. Erie, Pa. on the slst, BY boiler eu

Az Erie, Pa. on the slst, by a boiler ex-
plosion, three workingmen were fatally
scalded.
ArES THOUSAND DOLLAR mail rob berry as
tonished the New York post-office officials
on the 3oth. A clerk named Clark was
finally centered upon as the thief, and he
was arrested on the 3lst the missing
package being found later. and finally
Clark confessed, and was sent 10 Jail.
EDWARD NJ. NEWMAN, in the employ OF
Michael Levnson, Wholesale clothier, New
York, was arrested on the 3lst, charged
with defrauding tho firm OF over $4,000
by means OF false entries and misusing
the checks of the frm. Newman was
taken to the Tooinbs.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS OF the General
Land Office has issued an order creating
a contest board TO which all contest cases
now pending, or hereafter arising, in the
pre-emption and public lands divisions,
shall be referred for examination and de-
cision. After action is taken by this
board upon q contest case, il will go to the
Board of Review.
KING CHRISTIAN of Denmark has been
informed from ST Petersburg that anoth.
er unsuccessful attempt has been made
upon the Cars life News has also been
received Of the discovery OF a conspiracy
in the Caucasus. One hundred officers Of
the Tfiis garrison have been arrested for
completely in the plot
Two men, engineer and fireman, were
killed in a railway collision on the lst
near Corinth, Miss
JouS TALBOT, one OF the most notorious
burglars on the continent, was captured
in New York City on the lst.
AFTER serving ten months OF years
Imprisonment sentence, at Blackwelrs
Island, Herr Most, the Anarchist leader,
was released on .he 1st and returned TO
New York City.
THE "Billy Kissane" sensation at New
York and San Francisco is unabated.
"Billy's" lawyer failed TO get his old i'm
dictment nolle pressed at New York.
"Biliy's" identity has not yet been given
10 the public.
LEWIS STEWART, colored, was hanged at
Lauren, y. C., on the lst, for the murder
of his wife
The New York Times announces that
Jake Sharp will be the next "boodler"
brought TO trial by District Attorney Mar
tine. The case will doubtless come on IN
May before Judge Barrett
POSTMASTER PEPPER, Of Boscobel, Wis,
was arrested on the lst by the United
States marshal on a charge OF misappro-
prating funds OF the Government to the
extent of 800. In default of bonds for his
appearance in court he was taken TO Mad
ison to await trial
LEGAL proceedings have been instituted
against the captain Of the bark Ada Mel
more, which collided with the British
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coast, January 20, when the latter was
sunk and over three hundred persons
drowned. The captain of the Ada Mel
more is charged with infringing on the
regulations to prevent collision.
A LARGE tenement building in Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
I'd, and ten families lost all their worldly
possessions some of them narro WY es
Gaping with their lives
DIR. CHARLES BguII, of Avoca, Wis, has
been arrested and lodged in Jail on q
charge of having poisoned his wife.
A WITNESS in the Haddock murder trial
at Sioux City, Ia, te stiiied on the 2d that
he saw Leavitt fire the fatal shot
By railroad collision on the Canada
Southern section Of the Michigan Central
railroad, near St Thomas, Ont, on the
I'd, two brakemen were killed and large
amount of rolling stock wrecked.
THE Hotel de Monte, at Monterey, Cal,
the handsomest waterIng-place hotel il
America, costing s25),Oo, was destroyed
| by fire on the "a
| MRS NELLIE SMITH, of 10 Harper,
court, Brooklyn, visited Railway, n j., o,
| the Sd, and said that she Identified Tho
body Of the murdered g.rl as that of hei
former servant, named Sophia Smith.
A MAN named O'Rourke has been ar
rested at Niagara Falls on suspicion o.
being the person who recently robbed tn,
express messenger on the West Shore
railroad